My mom and I were talking today and began to define happiness. This made me think about other people and wonder what makes them happy. So this post is for you to share what little everyday things you enjoy.

My book getting published (oops... went into the realm of ecstatic fantasy)

The awesome people I've met here

Do I have to stop?

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Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it is like inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too. - Frederick Buechner

If society prospers at the expense of the intangibles,how can it be called progress?

O'siyo, Happiness is: ~Wearing my favourite, big, fuzzy sweatshirt while sitting on the beach at night feeling the waves run over my feet ~Watching/listening to someone laugh uncontrollably because of something funny I shared::lol ~Feeling my nose and cheeks freeze as I ride my Harley on a cool, crisp Autumn eve ~Realising every day just how truly blessed I am ~'Talking' to the animals ~~Sty-U

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I always knew one day I would travel this road;I just did not know that today would be the day....

'Each man is good in his sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows' --Sitting Bull

Happiness i so much a matter of perception. Often times we (as individuals) forget what truly makes us happy. We tend to think in terms of large things:cars, money, world domination...Its my opinion that happiness is ,really, in the small things.

watching lightning dance across the sky and having your son there who is in complete awe.

I hug from my boy..the smile when my son sees mean I love you from my sonMy boy laying on my chest and telling me good morningMy son

Waking up next to the one you loveGroggy kisses with morning breath first thing in the morningSnuggling with the one you lovethose quiet moments when neither of you have to say anythign but a million words are conveyed with but a glance and a smileThe emotion that comes with a single touch of a hand .the feel of warm breath on skin during an embrace...enough of that...sorry

sunsetssunrisessitting in a field and getting to the point where you can hear the music being made by all of natures things. where the brook, the wind and the russle of the grass sings to you

finishing a story that I am happy with(doesnt happen often)

firendscomradesloved onesthe respect of them

being able to be happy

looking into my soul and seeing a glimpse of the beauty everyone else sees...its fleeting but its there.

anyway..I ramble

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'Dying for being different is still better than living as a Sheep'-anon

Seeing someone honestly enjoy something I've done.Good musicThe flow of a stream to the pagea laughing brooka good rainwalking in the woodswalking at nighttalking with friends about everything and nothingWater (I so long to walk a beach alone at night, but it's so far away)A freshly fallen blanket of snowremembering an interesting dreamand most recently: finally meeting someone who has been looking forward to seeing you as much as you've been looking forward to seeing them (enough to spend quite a bit of money and time for it)

Sleeping late on saturday and the weather is nice and cool, curled up with my wife; then the dogs start barking and nudginge me with their nose and I have to get up walk down stais let them out, feed and water them and then go back up stairs and can still get to that place between wake and sleep.

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"when a person is prepared to die for a cause, and indeed to glory in such a death, it impossible to supress him or the cause it represents." Jawaharlal Nehru

"Only the suppressed word is dangerous." Ludwig Borne

"All of our freedoms are a single bundle, all must be secure if any is to be preserved." Dwight David Eisenhower

"All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are both immortal and divine." Socrates